Selected Resources

Beyond suicide and self-harm topics, Ripple also protects vulnerable individuals facing a broader range of mental health challenges and life struggles, including:

• Autism
• Bereavement
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic abuse
• Eating disorders
• Financial struggles
• Gambling addiction
• Grooming
• LGBTIQA+ struggles
• Military to civilian transition
• Substance misuse
• Suicide and self-harm

These topics been chosen in close collaboration with more than 30 Advisory Board members. This approach is grounded in evidence showing the close links between these challenges and suicide risk.

Note: These expanded categories are only available to UK Browser Extension users.
Organisations may opt-out from certain categories by contacting us.

Your colleagues need your support:

Your colleagues might be struggling. Many individuals find it hard to open up and discuss their mental health. Ripple provides a ‘safety net’ for those who are in crisis and offers hope in their darkest hour.

Compliment your wellbeing offerings

Your current wellbeing offerings provide your staff and colleagues with a range of benefits to improve wellbeing and mindfulness. Ripple is not a wellbeing or mindfulness tool, it’s a crisis intervention tool and intercepts those colleagues who might need immediate mental health support.

Promote a positive brand:

Your brand is your company’s identity in the marketplace. It’s what you’re known for and how your customers perceive your company.

It goes without saying that every company strives to maintain a positive brand image, respected identity and favourable public opinion — whether the brand is local, national or global.

Show, publicly, your commitment to improving the mental health of your colleagues, customers and clients by partnering with Ripple.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR):

Highlighting corporate social responsibility: supporting a charity enhances a company’s credibility in a way that can spread a positive attitude amongst their audience and help them reach a new market.

The figures:

• Male suicide is at its highest rate in 20 years in 2020 (ONS)
• 26.8% of people aged 16-24 report having had suicidal thoughts in their lifetime, a higher percentage than any other age group (MHFA)
• Every 90 minutes in the UK, a life is lost to suicide (The Sun’)
• Harmful internet use was found in 26% of deaths in under 20s (Samaritans)

Differentiation:

By supporting a mental health charity, you are opening doors to many other businesses, educational establishments and charities who also care about mental health and prioritise the wellbeing of their staff and colleagues.

Reach more people and collaborate openly about your organisation’s mission in smashing the stigma surrounding mental health and adding an additional layer of protection to your colleagues, customers and clients through Ripple.

Ripple cannot report on data within your organisation. The purpose of the Ripple tool is to provide crisis intervention and immediate signposting to mental health support. This is where and when the person seeing these details, decides whether to follow that redirection, a personal choice.

We have thought long and hard about the possibility of collecting data analysis within organisations who have deployed Ripple. After careful consideration, we have come to the decision not to develop versions of Ripple which could report analysis for a specific company or organisation. The reasons for this decision include the following:

• Sensitivity - self-harm and suicidal ideation is a very sensitive subject. Reporting back on someone’s search history may have an adverse effect on the individual who is experiencing mental health crisis.
• Data Protection – feedback from our users, lived experience panels and clinicians has shown a strong preference for data protection, meaning we should not gain any access to information that could identify a person or their intentions.
• Personal Choice – Ripple provides an interception when an individual is conducting harmful online searches. Is it down to the individual as to whether they choose to  utilise the support offered by Ripple or continue their search. We are not able to block people from accessing content outright, but we can provide support to individuals at their most vulnerable point in the hope they choose to utilise it.

Customer data is something we actively seek to avoid, at every turn. Our mission is to get Ripple onto as many machines as possible and to provide a vital safety net of support if somebody is researching a way to end their own life.

Evaluating the effectiveness of Ripple

Management and senior leadership within organisations whoare interested in implementing Ripple, or who have already deployed Ripple,should be aware that it should not be financially evaluated in the same way asother technological investments for the business.

If Ripple has never been triggered within your organisation,it simply means that, fortunately, none of your employees have conductedharmful online research about taking their own life on their corporate device.

However, if one of your employees does conduct harmfulonline searches in the future, Ripple is there to incept that action andsignpost them to immediate mental health support.   

In the same way that a business invests in anti-virussoftware to protect their technology from malware, they would not simplydeactivate or cancel their anti-virus software subscription because thebusiness has not been subject to a cyber-attack, as that would subsequentlyleave the business vulnerable to cyber-attacks in the future.

Similarly, a business should not determine if Ripple is ‘successful’ or not based upon the number of interventions the tool has made.

The Ripple tool is a unique piece of tech that adds to your duty of care towards employees (and students, when considered within an Educational establishment). Ripple is a crisis intervention tool that provides signposting to mental health support following harmful online searches. The technology can complement your CSR strategy and also enhances your commitment to improving mental health for your workforce.

To book Alice for a speaking event please complete our request form and a member of our team will be in touch. Feedback received from Alice’s sessions include:

EDF Energy - “You speak so eloquently and with such power. your presentation was incredible, from the heart, real, professional, passionate, relevant, informative and impressive. What you have achieved and the places you have reached in such a short time is just remarkable - I don't even know you but I am so proud of you and your team!”

Sky – “The passion and heart behind this project is truly awe inspiring. The Ripple tool is an innovative solution to the problem of vulnerable people using the internet to access harmful content related to suicide. Alice has used her skills to create technology that is providing support and saving lives.”

CISCO – “You’re inspiring people. You’re putting hope out in the world. You’re de-stigmatizing mental illness. We’re incredibly grateful to know you.”

Hampshire County Council - “I just wanted to say how much I/we at HCC value the tremendous work you are doing – putting vision into practice every day to help provide a safety net around those in crisis.  And all in loving memory of Josh. Thank you isn’t enough – and please know you are all appreciated so much.”

It’s carried out via key words. So if someone searches online for something relating to self-harm or  suicide, Ripple will be presented to them – providing a message of hope and a selection of mental  health resources to choose from.

Ripple cannot report on data within your organisation. The purpose of the Ripple tool is to provide crisis intervention and immediate signposting to mental health support. This is where and when the person seeing these details, decides whether to follow that redirection, a personal choice.

We have thought long and hard about the possibility of collecting data analysis within organisations who have deployed Ripple. After careful consideration, we have come to the decision not to develop versions of Ripple which could report analysis for a specific company or organisation. The reasons for this decision include the following:

• Sensitivity - self-harm and suicidal ideation is a very sensitive subject. Reporting back on someone’s search history may have an adverse effect on the individual who is experiencing mental health crisis.
• Data Protection – feedback from our users, lived experience panels and clinicians has shown a strong preference for data protection, meaning we should not gain any access to information that could identify a person or their intentions.
• Personal Choice – Ripple provides an interception when an individual is conducting harmful online searches. Is it down to the individual as to whether they choose to utilise the support offered by Ripple or continue their search. We are not able to block people from accessing content outright, but we can provide support to individuals at their most vulnerable point in the hope they choose to utilise it.

There are three primary ways to get the extension onto university (or indeed any) managed machines:

• GPO (Group Policy Object) - You can force install a browser extension on Chrome and on Edge using this method;
• Force installs through browser management - Both Google workspace and Microsoft 365 have methods for this;
• Using a third-party management tool (of which there are many – if your organisation does not use  one, this is not an option to consider).

Ripple cannot report on data within your organisation. The purpose of the Ripple tool is to provide crisis intervention and immediate signposting to mental health support. This is where and when the person seeing these details, decides whether to follow that redirection, a personal choice.

We have thought long and hard about the possibility of collecting data analysis within organisations who have deployed Ripple. After careful consideration, we have come to the decision not to develop versions of Ripple which could report analysis for a specific company or organisation. The reasons for this decision include the following:

• Sensitivity - self-harm and suicidal ideation is a very sensitive subject. Reporting back on someone’s search history may have an adverse effect on the individual who is experiencing mental health crisis.
• Data Protection – feedback from our users, lived experience panels and clinicians has shown a strong preference for data protection, meaning we should not gain any access to information that could identify a person or their intentions.
• Personal Choice – Ripple provides an interception when an individual is conducting harmful online searches. Is it down to the individual as to whether they choose to utilise the support offered by Ripple or continue their search. We are not able to block people from accessing content outright, but we can provide support to individuals at their most vulnerable point in the hope they choose to utilise it.